Sickies

I'm so sick! Painful cough, sore throat, stuffy nose and achy body. Olivia and Lexie have been sick but are better. Cassidy had a runny nose today so I think she's getting sick too. She had been sleeping through the night- 9pm-5am- but was up last night. I just want to sleep!!!!

More updates when I feel better.....

Our "new" van

So it's now 2 months old so it isn't entirely new. We got it at the end of

March when Cassidy was 2-3 weeks old. I am LOVING it! Dan reminded me of when we first got married I swore I would never drive a minivan. Well, this girl has changed her mind. With 3 kids there aren't too many options. My favourite thing about it is the sliding doors that open by remote, 2 buttons on the inside or by just flicking the handle. It seats 8 so we could have 3 more kids and still have room!!! Just kidding.

I was kinda awesome today!

Here's why I feel pretty good about myself:

I put on a bathing suit and took Lexie swimming!!! I can barely tolerate looking at myself in a side profile but I found a bathing suit that covered up my zig zag stretch marks and flabby tummy and went out in public in a swim suit.

Here's another reason I'm feeling pretty awesome:

I got all 3 girls ready to go to the pool where we met Dan's mom who looked after Cassidy while I went in with Lexie. (Olivia had lessons) Getting all 3 girls out the door on time is something to be pretty proud of but that's not why I'm full of myself. I open up the van (my fantastic new van that will have to show you all) and see that Olivia's car seat is missing! It's still in the Rav4, which was with Dan in Surrey. So I grabbed the stroller and we walked to the pool! It's about a 15 minute walk. The girls did really well too walking all the way to the pool. We were only 5 mins late to Olivia's lesson.

And the last reason I'm so happy:

The girls were in bed by 6:20! I put them so early b/c it takes them like an hour to wind down and finally fall asleep. And they were fast asleep by 7:20.

Milestones

Some new milestones from Cassidy:

*10 weeks she started laughing- is there anything more precious than a baby cracking up???

*11 weeks she noticed me and herself in the mirror

11 weeks 5 days...

That's how long little Cassidy went before I had to wake her from a nap. I hate waking a sleeping baby. Naps are hard to come by at this house too. But Olivia is doing another set of swimming lessons. She's in the Crocodile class now.

Sleepover at Pa and Avo's

Olivia and Lexie spent Sunday night at Pa and Avo's. Did you hear the loud "woo hoo!!!"'s coming from our house? Love those girls to death but they have so much energy. I wish I had half of their energy. So guess what Dan and I did? Not much. We enjoyed the quiet house and did a little cleaning. So lame, I know. The above picture is of them all ready to go. They even packed their own suitcases! I had to repack b/c who needs 15 undies for one night away from home? We forgot to pack running shoes and they didn't get to go to the beach :(

They did go for a walk with Avo and get a cupcake. Pa and Avo are probably going to need a few days to recover from the chaos!

I'd love to share more but right now I have a grumpy Lexie to deal with. She is going to sleep later than she should and waking up earlier than I'd like. GRUMPY. On a good note, Cassidy slept through the night last night. So amazing waking up when it's light out!!!

Aquarium

We have a family membership to the Vancouver Aquarium so we decided to head on down there today. We knew it would get busy so we went early-ish. I can't really tell you what we saw because it's all such a blur. The girls run from exhibit to exhibit, just spending a few seconds at each.